This album is a live recording of Burton and his quartet at Carnegie Hall. The performance mixes elements of hard-bop , modal jazz , r...

When Harold Rhodes invented the Rhodes piano in 1942 as a therapeutic device for wounded soldiers , there is little chance he could h...

Even before his tenure with Pharoah Sanders , Santana and Archie Shepp , avant garde jazz vocalist Leon Thomas was a force to be reck...

Once a year, during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival , some of the greatest artists the Crescent City has to offer get toge...

The Blackbyrds were a ground-breaking jazz/fusion group who produced seven albums on Fantasy Records from 1973-1980. Their eponymous debu...

Conrad O. Johnson As a follow up to the last post, here's another great group of student musicians, this time hailing from K...

It's truly amazing what can happen when you harness the power of students. Led by the legendary Alvin Batiste , the Jaguar Jazz Ense...